'Role of Women in the War', 1861, (1938). ''Most of the women of the country, North and South, turned courageously to the tasks left by the men who had gone to fight. There were clothes to be sent to the army, bandages to be rolled, and countless sacrifices to be made in the household budgets. Many Southern women volunteered for munitions making and some courageously served as spies. From Adventures of America 1857-1900, by John A. Kouwenhoven [Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1938]

Florence Nightingale, British nurse and hospital reformer, c1836 (1956). Seated beside her sister, Frances Parthenope, Lady Verney. Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) made her reputation by her organisation of nursing service during the Crimean War. Thereafter she worked tirelessly to improve public health nursing at St Thomas's Hospital in London. From the National Portrait Gallery, London. A print from 'People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential', by Readers Union The Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.

'Queen Matilda And Her Tapestry', (c1850). Matilda (1031-1083), queen consort of the Kingdom of England and the wife of William the Conqueror, is supposed to have worked on the Bayeux Tapestry. Colour plate from Pictures of English History, George Routledge & Sons, (London, New York, c1850).